Jerry Jones: ‘I won’t trash kicker’

With their season possibly hanging in the balance, the Dallas Cowboys will travel to Houston this weekend with a shaky kicker.

But you won’t hear Jerry Jones say that.

“I think we’ve got a fundamentally sound kicker,” Jones told KRLD-FM, per ESPNDallas.com. “I hope he doesn’t have to make it, but I hope he can make a winning field goal this week.”

David Buehler, that “fundamentally sound kicker,” has missed half of his four field goal attempts, with a crucial miss in each of the first four games.

“We’re not debating this,” Jones said. “Do you think I want to sit here and trash our kicker (with) him lining up against the Texans to help us beat them?

“I mean, honestly, would you want me to sit here and show doubt with our kicker and him having to go down there Sunday and kick? You don’t think what we say might not get back to him, do you? But seriously, but seriously, what would you have me say? We’re going to get rid of the kicker?”